I’ll answer that for you, but first tell me what the (typical, average, ballpark) resistance of a human body is.

Ok, you’re still failing here. The water content of a human body is irrelevant. A large contact area is irrelevant.

Let me make it easier for you. As I’m sure you know, to be electrocuted an electrical current needs to flow through someone’s body. What part of the neighbour’s body is the current going to enter, and which part is it going to leave?

I don’t need to, because I know how electrical circuits work. I don’t think you do. But, go on, explain why I’m wrong.

Do you really? It seems like you don’t actually understand, because this won’t work.

What makes you think that will work? That sounds like a very complicated way of just connecting the common to live with no human in the loop.

Frangible nuts. Get the load onto the nuts instead of the floor/ceiling. Wait until the neighbour is in the middle of something very physical, then blow the charge allowing the bolts (screws) to slip.

For someone to get electrocuted, the current needs to flow through their body. Electricity always follows the path of least resistance, so there’s basically no way to do that from upstairs.

If you attach both terminals of the battery (or a stripped extension wire) that wouldn’t do it. Assuming the pole is conductive, the electricity would just go into the screws, into the pole, across to the other screw and out. If the pole isn’t conductive it would probably do nothing at all. Maybe the floor is conductive, in which case it would go into the screw, through the floor/ceiling and out the other screw. There’s just no way to do it where the electricity flows from a screw, down the pole, into the body of the pole dancer, then somehow back out and up to the battery.

Even if the person who owned the stripper pole wanted to electrocute themselves it would be difficult. Assuming the pole is conductive, if you attached one electrode near the ceiling and one near the floor, the electricity would just flow through the pole. It wouldn’t make a detour to go through the body of the pole dancer. You’d basically have to clip one side of the battery to your toe, the other side to the stripper pole, and then grab the pole with your hands. And, even then, it might not do it – you’d have to have sweaty hands and toes to make the path through your body conductive.

I really hate the movie trope where people can get electrocuted by stepping into a puddle that has something electricity-related in it. It’s almost as bad as the trope that you get blasted backwards if you’re hit by a bullet / shotgun blast.

You could even phrase it so the “customer is right about what a machiato is”, like “I’m sorry, this is what we call a machiato here, can you tell me what you’re looking for?”

Hiding behind the bar trying to guess someone’s order isn’t good customer service. Asking the customer to clarify what they want so you can make it exactly how they like it is good customer service.

This is why I much prefer restaurants in places where tipping doesn’t happen.

There’s no BS about the waiter/waitress pretending to be your friend. There’s no organizing the restaurants by sections with one waiter/waitress covering only their section, whoever’s available when someone needs something deals with it. When your food is ready, any waiter/waitress around will grab it and bring it to the table. Also, because the places don’t depend on tips, they don’t care as much about how the waiter or waitress looks. That means people tend to stick around for longer, they know the food, they’re good at the job, and because they don’t need to keep flattering you, they can be honest.

I’m fine with going fast on a sled being a sport. That’s cool. But, it seems like something where it’s only valid if everybody involved is actively doing something on the way down, not just being ballast.

One person sledding makes sense. But, in this sport, the guy on the bottom can’t possibly be anything but ballast, can he? He can’t see anything, so he can’t be steering or braking, right?

Same with bobsled, the guy at the front is steering. Maybe the people in the back help with something, but they can’t be too actively involved because they can’t see.

A key detail:

Johnson said “he was pardoned for storming the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and he was being awarded $10,000,000 as a result of being a ‘jan 6er’” and would put the boy “in his will to take any money he had left over”.

He tried to get the kid(s) to keep quiet about his molesting them by telling them that he was going to get a payout for being a Jan 6 insurrectionist, and that he was going to share his multi-million dollar payout with them.

Why are you so angry? I’m trying to determine if there’s actually a use for these text generators, and you first say “Sorry but if you can’t make LLMs useful there is something wrong with how you are using them.”, and then you refuse to actually explain what you’re using it for, instead making vague hand-wavey statements.

What do you mean by “medical help”?

What is it that you find useful?

It works by predicting the most likely words to follow the sequence you already have, with a bit of noise added. The result is that if you ask it a question, it is effectively designed to sound as much like an answer as possible. Whether or not that answer is true is out of scope, and not something that technology could ever consider.

I like to talk about it as if it’s the world’s best prop master. You ask for a prop, and you’ll be given one of the most realistic props imaginable. You want a medical chart, it will give you a chart that might fool a doctor. You ask for a legal brief, it has one that might just fool a judge in court. If you ask it for a computer program, what it spits out might actually compile and/or run. But, of course, these are props. They’re only designed to look good on camera. At most, someone will stream it in 4k, pause it, and try to read the prop while it’s on screen.

As someone who has been annoyed with props for decades, I love that. No more “computer code” scenes where it’s just random gobbledygook. But, someone trying to use the output as if it’s real is just as clever as someone who tries to spend prop money from a movie.

He has likely ended his legal and sporting careers now.

Suuuuuure…

Note, this is happening for the same reason Reddit started enshittifying much harder all of a sudden. Discord wants to do an IPO and so they’re going to suddenly start squeezing their users to make the numbers look good just in time for that IPO. Their bet is that they have enough momentum that enough people will stick with them long enough for the IPO to succeed, and after that happens, it’s someone else’s problem.

rate other nations on reputational factors such as trust, admiration, respect, and overall image.

I think you can see why if those are the criteria. Switzerland may not be seen as benevolent, but they can be trusted, and they’re well respected. They tend to stick to their principles, even if you don’t agree with those principles, you can respect that and admire it. Also, while a lot of Switzerland’s economy is finance and tech, the manufacturing industry they have isn’t all that polluting. They have drug manufacturers, lens manufacturers, etc. By contrast, Norway may be a more friendly and compassionate country, but it’s also an oil-based economy.

I like how Taiwan sneaks into the rankings out of nowhere.

Also, Cuba and Venezuela disappeared. Does that mean that somehow they’re ranked even lower than Russia?